Uk Food Alerts

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uk-food-alerts -- the Food Standards Agency's food alerts for England, Wales and Northern Ireland: product recalls and withdrawals (PRIN, Product Recall Information Notices), allergy alerts (AA) and food alerts for action (FAFA). Read live per call from the agency's open data service (Open Government Licence v3); nothing is stored. Scotland's alerts are issued by Food Standards Scotland and are not in this list.

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free tier50 calls/day

Tools

uk_food_alert_get

Get one UK Food Standards Agency food alert by its number (such as FSA-AA-53-2026 for an allergy alert or FSA-PRIN-01-2018 for a product recall): the description, the problem and risk statement, every

No parameters required.

▶Try it

Test with curl

The gateway speaks JSON-RPC 2.0 over HTTP POST. You can test any pack directly from the terminal.

List available tools
bash
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/uk-food-alerts/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'
Call a tool
bash
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/uk-food-alerts/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"uk_food_alerts_search","arguments":{}}}'

Use with the SDK

Install @pipeworx/sdk to call tools from any TypeScript/Node project.

TypeScript
import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const px = new Pipeworx();
const result = await px.call("uk_food_alerts_search", {});
ask_pipeworx
// Or ask in plain English:
const answer = await px.ask("uk-food-alerts -- the food standards agency's food alerts for england, wales and northern ireland: product recalls and withdrawals (prin, product recall information notices), allergy alerts (aa) and food alerts for action (fafa)");